National Republican., 1887-07-07

celebrated Hot and Warm Springs Valley
to Covington, Va, with branch road Of
about eight miles to Clifton Forge then
through over 100 miles of the finest iron
and coal fields to Knoxville, Tenn, with Il
branch from near the Tennessee and Nir-
ginia line to Nashville, and finally on to
Austin and Waco, Tex; also branch road
from hot and Warm Springs Valley through
the great iron, timber, aud coal fields to
Charleston, w. Va, and Cincinnati is now
being considered, and we call special atten-
tion to this important enterprise and to the
stupendous improvements to result from
its development 1t is on direct lines he
tween important terminal points, and the
entire route is on easy grades, through
thickly settled and ilourishing agricultural
and mineral sections OF our country, having
hundreds of cities and thriving villages and
important manufacturing towns and mills,
factories, furnaces, marble and granite
quarries along the route. 1t Is an indie
pendent central line and can have no rival
or competitor.
A careful personal inspection OF this
route has been made, and we have detailed
statements of county surveyors, engineers,
and intelligent persons living along the
contemplated line, and the opinion is uni
versal that railway can be cheaply and
rapidly constructed over the route indi-
Gated.
Near Sudly White sulphur Springs, about
thirty miles from Washington, on and
near the route, there are deposits of granite,
marble, iron, and copper portion of
Hot and Warm Springs mountain is a vast
deposit, and thought to be II "mountain Of
solid lron," equal in extent and quality to
the celebrated Iron mountain of Missouri,
emitting ii to be called "The Hot and
Warm Springs Iron Mountain Of Virginia" 4"
From Luray and XirKle Caves across via
Harrisonburg to Hot and Warm Springs
Valley there is the ral.marble quarry in
Marble Valley, and there are the iron and
silver mines near Deerfleld and the Dora
gold mines, and many locations OF iron
ana coal in abundance; as also the great
"lron mountain" near Covington, Va,
and some iron works along and
near the line also fifteen Touring
wooden, and other mills, factories, and tan
neries, In a distance of about So miles
From CovingtOn, Va, to Knoxville, Tenn,
this contemplated railroad route runs
through over 100 miles of immense iron
fields and ineXhaustible fields of camel
and bitumnous coal, many public roads
being on beds of coal and iron, and 1t crops
out on the side hills along the route. There
are also inexhaustible quantities of the very
finest quality and variety Of marble, grind.
sboht, "utlbtOhti lhlIlsiOuNs ubu
which, In many places, is being taken out
and hauled on wagons fifteen and twenty
miles to the nearest railroad stations. Fine
red hematite ore, magdnese, and red oxide
OF iron, ilre-proof paint, crop out In many
places along the line. have great many
fine specimens from along the contemplated
route.
by this route the wonderful Luray and
Iirkle Caves, now l2S miles from Washing
ton, will be only about ii miles; Harrison
burg, l55 miles by the present route, will
be only l09 miles, and the celebrated Hot,
Warm and Healing Springs Valley, now re-
quiriug usually two DAYS journey, with
an all-night stopover, will be about l63
miles, or hours from Washington, from
Baltimore, $ from Philadelphia, 10 from
New York, and II from Boston, and there
could not be better terminus than the
District Of Columbia, where there will soon
be the finest city on the globe, and contain
ing 1000, 900 of people, and hundreds Of
cotton and Touring mills aud manufacto'
ries, with chain OF iron rolling mills, fur
naces, shipbuilding yards, and all kinds of
machinery on the Virginia side OF the Po.
tOmac, from the Great Falls to Washington
city and Alexandria, which will need the
coal, iron, and timber so abundant along
this railroad line, and thus giving employ
ment to 100000 machinists, mechanics, ar
tisans, and labUrers,
Those who have lived at Ark ansas Hot
81 rings, and those who have visited other
noted hot aud warm springs resorts in this
and other countries, assert that II can be
truthfully said that there Is not I'm this or
In any country such flow OF hot, warm,
aud tepid waters as these hundreds of hot,
warm sulphur, and tepid or healing springs,
on this railroad route afford, and all within
few hours ride OF the great centers OF
population. Onchulf mile below the
numerous Warm sulphur Springs there are
mills and machinery operated by the warm
water flow; and the same may he said Of the
Hot Springs and the Healing Springs flow
Of water, which is enormous, producing
creeks Of hot and warm waters sufficient
to operate mills and machinery. This state
ment is made simply to show the great
abundance OF hot aud warm waters that
flow from this wonderful mountaiu valley.
These waters are similar and equally good
as are those of the Arkansas Hot Springs,
and ten times greater quantity, with
much more sulphur and sulphuric acid gas,
The hot, warm, aud tepll waters OF this
valley are sufficient to accommodate a
million of visitors; and the location is in Il
higher, dryer and more salubriOus climate,
and more picturesque and beautiful noun
tains aud valley scenery, with lar more
pleasant surroundings and associations
than at Arkansas Hot Springs This hot,
warm, and healing springs valley is about
20 miles in extent, aud 2,6OO feet above
the sea One can look around at noun
taIns rising TO an altitude Of several hun
dred feet above, Nearly opposite the Warm
Sulphur Springs Hotel Flag rock rises